Health care overhaul insures 2.5 million more young adults

[Trajan]

More good news as a result of the new health care law. Go on, Republicans, tell these 2.5 million people that you want to take away their health insurance.

(CBS/AP) Since the new health care overhaul law took effect a year ago, 2.5 million young adults have gained insurance, according to a new report from the Obama administration.

The report - published Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - shows an increase 2 1/2 times larger than government and private estimates from earlier this year. The previous estimate was that 1 million Americans ages 19-25 had gained coverage.

Administration officials said they now have more data and are slicing the numbers more precisely than the government usually does in an effort to pinpoint the new law's impact.

Under the health overhaul, children can remain on their parents' health insurance plans until they turn 26. Families have flocked to sign up young adults making the transition to work in tough economic times.

According to the government survey, nearly 36 percent of Americans ages 19-25 - more than 10.5 million people - were uninsured in the third quarter of 2010, before the law's provision took effect. Most workplace health plans started carrying the provision Jan. 1, 2011. By the second quarter of 2011, the proportion of uninsured young adults had dropped to a little over 27 percent, or about 8 million people.

The 2.5 million difference can only be the result of the health care law, administration officials said, because the number covered by public programs like Medicaid went down slightly.

Health care overhaul insures 2.5 million more young adults - HealthPop - CBS News

and who paid for this, btw?

 

[J.E.D]

That's the idea isn't it? Once you promise taxpayer freebees you can't take it back even if it means that adults four years short of their 30th birthday can still get health insurance under mommy's name.

WHo's making parents keep their kids on their plans? The law doesn't force them to; it ALLOWS them to. If they want to let their 26 yr old son stay on their health plan, what does it matter to you?

They are adults.. they can get their own.. I can understand a 19 year old college student... I can understand a mentally challenged 30 year old dependent... this leech shit is ridiculous

Then don't pay for your 26 yr old's health insurance. Nobody's making you. The law simply ALLOWS people to stay on their parents' health plans until the age of 26. Pretty simple, really.

 

[Trajan]

That's the idea isn't it? Once you promise taxpayer freebees you can't take it back even if it means that adults four years short of their 30th birthday can still get health insurance under mommy's name.

WHo's making parents keep their kids on their plans? The law doesn't force them to; it ALLOWS them to. If they want to let their 26 yr old son stay on their health plan, what does it matter to you?

They are adults.. they can get their own.. I can understand a 19 year old college student... I can understand a mentally challenged 30 year old dependent... this leech shit is ridiculous

hey hey hey now, according to Pelosi , its great, they can all go chase their muse while others pick up the tab....

 

[Meister]

This should be good...

Did I say you specifically? No.

I said "you guys" in the same generic abstract that the righties us that all "libruls' play the race card....and yes... I have called a select few people on this board "racists". Two in fact... in a serious manner....because they are. The retired military guy with the David Duke sigline and the guy with a muppet for an avatar. But I don't call that "playing the race card" I say that's calling it like it is.

But I don't know HOW many times I've heard "Go get a job", Stop sucking off the government tit" and the like from the righties on here....which is complete bullshit.

Well, you were responding to me with, 'You Guys' so I was just assuming, by reading your words that you included me. Also, you stated that, "you always accuse us of"...again by saying that, I thought you were referring to me.
I hope you can see where the confusion came from.

 

[rightwinger]

Republicans have the best solution...

Let them die

 

[The T]

That's the idea isn't it? Once you promise taxpayer freebees you can't take it back even if it means that adults four years short of their 30th birthday can still get health insurance under mommy's name.

WHo's making parents keep their kids on their plans? The law doesn't force them to; it ALLOWS them to. If they want to let their 26 yr old son stay on their health plan, what does it matter to you?

They are adults.. they can get their own.. I can understand a 19 year old college student... I can understand a mentally challenged 30 year old dependent... this leech shit is ridiculous

And government endorsed/enforced to boot...

 

[Meister]

But, no one will be turned away in an emergency room, Flopper...just as it is now.
Obamacare will pick up the tab on it...even when they advertised that illegals aren't covered.

EMTALA is 25 years old. It has nothing to do with Obama, as he was a recent college grad when Reagan signed it.

Yes, or no....is Obamacare going to pick up the tab?

 

[The T]

Republicans have the best solution...

Let them die

Alan Grayson? Is that you?

 

[Meister]

Republicans have the best solution...

Let them die

Just a typical partisan hack response, leftwinger. You should make a bumper sticker out of that...oh wait, that ship has already sailed.

There can be a safetynet solution just for those who do fall through the cracks, for a small percentage of what we will be paying.

 

[Steelplate]

Did I say you specifically? No.

I said "you guys" in the same generic abstract that the righties us that all "libruls' play the race card....and yes... I have called a select few people on this board "racists". Two in fact... in a serious manner....because they are. The retired military guy with the David Duke sigline and the guy with a muppet for an avatar. But I don't call that "playing the race card" I say that's calling it like it is.

But I don't know HOW many times I've heard "Go get a job", Stop sucking off the government tit" and the like from the righties on here....which is complete bullshit.

Well, you were responding to me with, 'You Guys' so I was just assuming, by reading your words that you included me. Also, you stated that, "you always accuse us of"...again by saying that, I though you were referring to me.
I hope you can see where the confusion came from.

yep... I can.... sorry if I lump in every Conservative poster as a whole... It's a bad habit that many on here are prone to. I'll try to up my game in that regard.

 

[Trajan]

Obamacare Has Increased Cost of Health Insurance, Says Kaiser Foundation
Yay, Obamacare

Yeah, right, says the Kaiser Foundation So, how did Kaiser account for the fact that health care premiums have been rising more and more every year, even before Obama took office?

uhm, I would not knock the kaiser foundation bro.

 

[Trajan]

Republicans have the best solution...

Let them die

give me a Christmas present RW, stop being a jackass...ok? wait till new years then pick up where you left off....

 

[The T]

This should be good...

Did I say you specifically? No.

I said "you guys" in the same generic abstract that the righties us that all "libruls' play the race card....and yes... I have called a select few people on this board "racists". Two in fact... in a serious manner....because they are. The retired military guy with the David Duke sigline and the guy with a muppet for an avatar. But I don't call that "playing the race card" I say that's calling it like it is.

But I don't know HOW many times I've heard "Go get a job", Stop sucking off the government tit" and the like from the righties on here....which is complete bullshit.

Then YOU are on the wrong side...why do YOU support Big Government and thier mandates? Sure YOU may not be sucking at the tit...but by your rhetoric? You seem to be an enabler of Government to rob citizens of thier liberty in issues as this when they have no business in dictating these kinds of responsibilities that belong to the individual.

 

[The T]

Republicans have the best solution...

Let them die

give me a Christmas present RW, stop being a jackass...ok? wait till new years then pick up where you left off....

In fact? make it the entire board.

 

[Steelplate]

Did I say you specifically? No.

I said "you guys" in the same generic abstract that the righties us that all "libruls' play the race card....and yes... I have called a select few people on this board "racists". Two in fact... in a serious manner....because they are. The retired military guy with the David Duke sigline and the guy with a muppet for an avatar. But I don't call that "playing the race card" I say that's calling it like it is.

But I don't know HOW many times I've heard "Go get a job", Stop sucking off the government tit" and the like from the righties on here....which is complete bullshit.

Then YOU are on the wrong side...why do YOU support Big Government and thier mandates? Sure YOU may not be sucking at the tit...but by your rhetoric? You seem to be an enabler of Government to rob citizens of thier liberty in issues as this when they have no business in dictating these kinds of responsibilities that belong to the individual.

Well... when the working citizens have been getting hosed by the Conglomerate States of America, I tend to side with the underdog. Why do you support what you do? It's like going to a casino and rooting for the house.

 

[Greenbeard]

Yes, or no....is Obamacare going to pick up the tab?

"Obamacare" is a fabricated term. It doesn't refer to anything, certainly not a payer. So no.

 

[The T]

Republicans have the best solution...

Let them die

Just a typical partisan hack response, leftwinger. You should make a bumper sticker out of that...oh wait, that ship has already sailed.

There can be a safetynet solution just for those who do fall through the cracks, for a small percentage of what we will be paying.

Exactly. As a taxpayer I don't mind paying for those that cannot by no fault of thier own...what I do object to are those that have made the Safety net a hammock, and have taken up residence, when they are perfectly able to contribute themselves but take the coward's way out...and become moochers.

 

[rightwinger]

Republicans have the best solution...

Let them die

give me a Christmas present RW, stop being a jackass...ok? wait till new years then pick up where you left off....

Republicans have been blocking healthcare reform for over 20 years. After blocking Clinton from establishing a universal healthcare program and promising they would develop a better system, they did NOTHING

Once they took Congress, they blocked healthcare for 15 more years. Now their Repeal and Replace has become just Repeal

Let them die is an accurate description of Republican healthcare policy

 

[Trajan]

Yes, or no....is Obamacare going to pick up the tab?

"Obamacare" is a fabricated term. It doesn't refer to anything, certainly not a payer. So no.

fabricated....yea, by your masters.


now? its verboten....gee what a turn around eh?


hey hows that CLASS act going?

 

[Trajan]

Republicans have the best solution...

Let them die

give me a Christmas present RW, stop being a jackass...ok? wait till new years then pick up where you left off....

Republicans have been blocking healthcare reform for over 20 years. After blocking Clinton from establishing a universal healthcare program and promising they would develop a better system, they did NOTHING

Once they took Congress, they blocked healthcare for 15 more years. Now their Repeal and Replace has become just Repeal

Let them die is an accurate description of Republican healthcare policy

yea like they blocked hillary care..right?

Let them die is an accurate description of Republican healthcare policy

no, thats just you being stupid.